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At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.

Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.